hi,

this sounds similar to reinhold kainhofer's orchestralily package:
http://kainhofer.com/orchestrallily/

i'm not sure if reinhold is still actively maintaining it, but it might
also be worth a look.

regards,
sb


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote:

> Jacques Menu <jacques.m...@epfl.ch> writes:
>
> > After struggling with irregular bars, I've been working on a Python3
> tool that
> > transforms a spec such as:
> > [...]
> > into a ready-to-compile Lilypond source file.
>
> Very interesting. It reminds me of something I considered a while ago:
> a kind of meta-staff where the structure of the score is described
> (time/tempo, repeats, special \bar's, and so on). These would then apply
> to all the staffs automatically.
>
> The rationale is that while a LilyPond score consists of horizontal
> staffs, it is in fact structured vertically and sometimes it has
> advantages to treat it as such. For example, using pseudo-LP:
>
>   structure = {
>       A1
>       \repeat volta 2 {
>          A2
>       }
>       \alternative{
>          A21
>          A22
>       }
>       A3
>       \bar "||"
>       A4
>       \bar ":|"
>       A5
>   }
>   A1 = { ... }
>   B1 = { ... }
>   C1 = { ... }
>   ... and so on ...
>   voiceA = { \A1 \A2 \A21 \A22 \A3 \A4 \A5 }
>   voiceB = { \B1 \B2 \B21 \B22 \B3 \B4 \B5 }
>   voiceC = { \C1 \C2 \C21 \C22 \C3 \C4 \C5 }
>
> Much can be achieved with macro's, I know.
>
> Can you give me a url for your tool?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Johan
>
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